Today, we live in a world full of many distractions. People get bored and distracted easily and they are always looking for something new.

So, what kind of strategies are you using to keep the hyperactive website visitors from leaving your website?

Are you using a related posts plugin to let your visitors keep reading more and more about the topics they love? Well, you should install one right away!

What Are Related Post Plugins?

A related post plugin is a WordPress plugin that can be installed on your website to show a list of articles to your website visitors whenever they visit your website to read one of your blog posts.

Each plugin works differently. Some will allow you to show a widget on your sidebar while others show related articles at the bottom of each blog post. Either way, its main goal is to let your blog readers browse more articles related to the topic they came looking for.

You offer them a chance to learn more about the topic without having to search or visit another website while also increasing your website page-views. It’s a win-win situation.

If you’re still not using a related post plugin, here are some of the best plugins you should consider using for your blog.

AddThis is well known for its popular share and follow button plugins. But, the team also has an impressive related posts plugin that integrates quite well with WordPress to show more relevant related posts in many engaging ways.

Best Features

The best feature of Related Posts by AddThis plugin is its modern and attractive design that makes your related posts stand out from the rest of your website content.

In addition, the plugin will also allow you to show related posts in several different styles, including appear on-page scroll, at the bottom of blog posts, hovering related posts suggestions, and more.

Similar to AddThis, Shareaholic is another plugin that specializes in share and follow buttons. And it also comes with a related posts widget. The only difference is it’s not as customizable or as cool as the AddThis widget.

Best Features

Shareaholic is an all-in-one bundle of share buttons, follow buttons and a related posts widget. The related post widget can be displayed at the bottom of the page with rounded, card, or classic designs. Since this is not a dedicated related posts widget, that’s all the customization you get with this plugin.

Pros

Easy to install

Removes the need to install separate plugins for share buttons and follow buttons

This premium, yet lightweight, plugin is not as sophisticated as the other plugins in our list. It doesn’t have analytics or lots of themes for styling the design of the widget. However, it provides you with lots of options for customizing the design by yourself.

Best Features

The Better Related Posts Widget plugin features 12 advanced customization options for changing the style of your text, image thumbnails, and plenty more to make the related post widget fit right into your blog.

YARPP is one of the most popular related posts plugins with over 200,000+ installs. It’s mainly popular for the advanced algorithm the plugin uses to show highly relevant related posts by matching the topic with post titles, content, tags, and categories.

Best Features

The plugin allows you to show a related posts widget under your blog posts as either a list of links or with thumbnails. You may have seen these links under some blog posts around the web that says “You May Also Like” followed by a list of links to other related posts. Well, those are (probably) powered by this plugin.

Even though the design of the widget is basic and outdated, its algorithm makes the plugin truly unique.

Yuzo is yet another popular free related posts plugin that comes with a lot of cool features and technologies, including a caching system that optimizes the thumbnail images in the widget for faster page loading times.

Best Features

Yuzo plugin features multiple designs for you to choose from for finding the perfect theme to match your blog design. There are a lot of designs. A LOT!

This is yet another premium plugin designed for showing related posts under your blog posts in style. This plugin can work with many different content types, including custom post types, multi-sites, categories, terms, and more for showing accurate related posts.

Best Features

The three beautiful layout designs are the highlight feature of this plugin. These designs allow you to show related posts in a beautiful polaroid design, a slide-style design, or a large transitioning style design.

This free related posts plugin comes with widgets for both your blog posts and the side-bar for showing other related posts with terms most in common with the page content.

Best Features

The Related Posts by Taxonomy also allows you to insert the widget to anywhere on your website with a simple shortcode as well. Even though it offers limited widget customization options, you can still use your own HTML templates if you know some coding skills.

Technically, this is not a related posts plugin. This is a much more advanced plugin that shows related Amazon products instead. If you’re an affiliate blogger promoting Amazon products, this is a plugin you must have.

Best Features

This plugin uses an advanced algorithm to find the most related Amazon products to display under your blog posts to drive more sales. And it comes with 6 modern and gorgeous theme designs. All you have to do is connect your affiliate ID with the plugin and get started.

Pros

Easily monetize your website and earn more affiliate income

Beautiful design with 6 layout designs

Customize fonts

Send customers directly to checkout or use 90-days cookie

Cons

Only works for Amazon Affiliate users

Over To You

Keep in mind that some of these plugins are slightly heavier than the others. Some of them may add a couple of extra seconds to your website loading time. That’s something you should avoid at all costs if you care about getting better ranking on Google.

Good collection of related posts plugins. i used nRelate for a long time. Nowadays, I prefer Manual Related Posts plugin which lets me to pick related posts while I’m writing. This way, I can display closely related posts. But it works automatically as well.
If you are interested, you can check it here: wordpress.org/plugins/baw-manual-related-posts/

I am creating a knowledge base, that includes three types of visitors, and then FAQ questions based on the type of visitor. I would like to MANUALLY include related questions within each FAQ page. This article outlines great Plugins for related content by Posts, but not by FAQ’s. I haven’t been able to find a plugin for this. Do you know of any?

so i’m basically looking for a plugin that would allow me to add suggestions in my sidebar, something like related posts only i would add links manually, links from press, huffpost, upworthy and stuff like that, any suggestions?

I’m using WordPress Related Post By Sovrn, zemanta but it seems that it is being abandoned. I’m looking for a Related post plugin that will offer me three key features that Sovrn offers:

1. Letting me set the image shown from a custom field;
2. Must be able to set it by code in PHP file;
3. Letting me set some of the related posts by hand. Like if i have a post about Beth Behrs of Two Broke Girls, i will definitely want Kat Denning and Jennifer Coolidge as a Related post. The rest of them can be set automatically.

So far, number 3 on my list is not available anywhere, even from the paid ones…

It’s kind of a specific option, it’s unlikely a plugin will have that available. But you could always ask for a feature, whichever plugin fits the rest of your needs the best head over to the support ( or comment section ) and ask them if it’s a feature they’d consider adding. It’s more likely to be added by one of the paid plugins, but you could of course ask for the free plugins as well.

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